The Royal Society and the decline of magic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20315048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Hunter (0000-0002-0307-9127, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 103-119 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.2010.0086 |
| PMID | 21797146 |
| OpenAlex | W2089873852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
Whereas some have asserted that the early Royal Society actively sought to discredit magical beliefs, others have seen ideas of this kind as integral to the Society's ‘nature’ in its early years. This paper argues that, whatever the magical commitments of individual Fellows, the Society's corporate policy simply sidelined such pursuits. Yet, insofar as the result was that magic was excluded by default from the proper realm of scientific enquiry, this attitude was to prove paradoxically influential (although its roots have been retrospectively misconstrued to an extent that is significant in itself)
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| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |